At my environment the eMMC is called “/dev/mmcblk0“. Extract the previously downloaded image:

unxz Nextcloud13.img.xz

Then prepare your eMMC for acting as your server, therefore clone the image to your eMMC:

dd if=Nextcloud13.img of=/dev/mmcblk0

Wait a few minutes until the prompt will be back again and the card was already written for you. Now unplug the eMMC module from your desktop and plug the card to your ODROID-C2.

From Windows you can prepare the Odroid C2 using the Win32 Disk Imager Tool

The ODROID-C2 will be reachable via ssh. Please search for the dhcp adress given by your router.

Examplarily you can connect using ssh as that (substitute 192.168.2.230 to your IP!)

ssh nextcloud@192.168.2.230 -p2211

or, if your monitor and keyboard are plugged in to your Odroid C2, connect directly.

Login as user “nextcloud” using the password “nextcloud“. Please be aware, the user “root” is disabled for security reasons, but nextcloud is a member of the sudoers group. So please use sudo -s to act as a privileged user.

First logon with the following user credentials:

user: nextcloud
password: nextcloud

Please consider to change the nextcloud password directly:

sudo passwd nextcloud

Now change from your current dhcp IP to a static IP adress. An example can be found at

Hi Peter, unfortunately it doesn’t work for other Odroid’s than C2 because of a dedicated kernel delivered by Hardkernel and used for OdroidC2. But the guide Nextcloud installation guide would result in the same Nextcloud installation/configuration. If you need further advises or assistance, please send me an email. Cheers, Carsten